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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYAT_nsdar-founders-memorial_Washington-DC.html
The NSDAR was founded in Washington DC on October 11, 1890. On April 17, 1929, Grace L. H. Brosseau, President General, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, dedicated this memorial to the four founders of the NSDAR: Mary Desha, M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYAA_healing-the-wounded_Washington-DC.html
In 1866 the Navy completed the hospital you see across the street to treat injured and ailing seamen. With beds for 50, it included the carriage house/stable and cast-iron fence and (around the corner) the gazebo. Its front door originally was on …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXI2_witchhazel-middot-suhwe-t-suh-whet_Washington-DC.html
A popular commercial remedy and facial astringent used throughout the world, witchhazel was first harvested by Native peoples in the eastern United States.
The Potawatomi and Mahican tribes used witchhazel as a sedative and as an astringent, an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXHY_power-from-the-wind_Washington-DC.html
You are looking at a Windspire, a vertical-axis wind turbine that generates electricity from wind power. This model produces about 2,000 kWh of electricity a year in an area with average wind speeds of 12 mph (about ? the needs of the average hous…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXHX_power-from-the-wind_Washington-DC.html
This Skystream 3.7 residential turbine is a new generation of wind generator that hooks directly to your home to reduce or eliminate your monthly electric bill. It's designed to provide quiet, clean electricity in very low winds.
How can a wind…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXHV_restoration-of-the-land_Washington-DC.html
Four hundred years ago, the Chesapeake Bay region abounded in forests, meadows, wetlands, and croplands. The National Museum of the American Indian restores these environments and is home to more than 27,000 trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXHI_cardinal-direction-marker-north_Washington-DC.html
This granite stone is one of the oldest on earth - four billion years old! Before its two-week journey to Washington, D.C., the Dogrib (Tlicho) community of Acasta Lake, in Canada's Northwest Territories, blessed the stone. The Dogrib recount that…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXGN_u-s-post-office-department_Washington-DC.html
Inscription above the frieze, center, west side entablature:
The Post Office Department, in its ceaseless labors, pervades every channel of commerce and every theatre of human enterprise, and while visiting, as it does kindly every fireside, mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXGM_daniel-patrick-moynihan-place_Washington-DC.html
SenatorDaniel Patrick Moynihan wrote the Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture and the proposal for the redevelopment of Pennsylvania Avenue, which President John F. Kennedy proclaimed on May 23, 1962.He served in the cabinet or sub-cabinet …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXF2_scale-model-of-fort-stevens_Washington-DC.html
Dedicated September 1936in memory ofThe Grand Army of the Republicby theDaughters of Union Veteransof theCivil War1861-1865